St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-08
DROUTH AND CHINCH BUGS
Continue to Get in Their Work on
All Kinds of Crops.

CHICAGO, Aug. THE following
crop summary will appear in this weeks
issue of the Farmers Review: The corn
crop has materially suffered throughout
the West from the long continued
drouth. Local rains have fallen in
many localities since our reports reached
us, but is questionable whether the
damage 10 the crop can be repaired even
by general rains. The crop in many
parts of the West is in most lament
able condition. Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota and
Dakota have suffered less than the other
states. The winter wheat yield in the
different states, according to the reports
of our correspondents, is as follows:
Fifteen counties in Illinois, 1873
bushels; Wisconsin counties, 10 2-5;
Michigan counties, IA bushels;
IL Indiana counties, 142s bushels; 10
Ohio counties, Az bushels; Larne
county, Kentucky, reports the yield at
80 per cent. of an average, Webster
county 50 per cent, and the others re-
porting 10 bushels; II Missouri counties
20 bushels, and II Kansas counties IL
bushels. The average yield of oats in
the different states is as follows: Thir-
teen counties i'll Illinois, 35 bushels; 6
Wisconsin counties, "a bushels; Michi-
gan counties, 33 bushels; IA Indiana
counties, 6S bushels; IL Ohio counties,
"a bushels; II Missouri counties, 81 3-5
bushels; 13 Kansas counties, "a bush
els: Ii Iowa counties, 81 bushels; Ii
Minnesota counties, 35 bushels; 6 Ne
braska counties, 35 bushels, and Dakota
reports a good yield. The average con-
dition of the crop as reported from the
different states is as follows:
Seventeen counties in Illinois re-
port an average condition of 81 per cent.
Damage by drouth and bugs is general
throughout the state. The damage by
drouth and insects has not been quite 50
severe in Wisconsin, and counties re-
porting place the average at rs per
cent. Fourteen counties in Indiana re-
port an average condition of 81 per cent.
Damage by drouth is general. Damage
by drouth in Michigan, is not general,
and counties reporting place the aver
age condition of the crop at 81 per cent.
Benz county reports
DAMAGE
by drouth, and the average condition of
110 per cent; eleven Ohio counties
give an average condition of ITO per
cent. Eleven Ohio counties give an
average of so per cent, with damage by
ufOuIn Ill every coulity reporting. Nlllc
Missouri counties report an average
of 80 per cent. with damage
from drouth in every county
reporting. StOddart, where the
condition of the crop is estimated at
80 per cent. of an average. The crop
in Larn and Webster counties, Ken
lucky, is in fine condition, but in other
counties reporting it is only 80 per
cent. of an average crop, the damage
being from drouth. Kansas counties
report the condition of the crop at A
per cent. The drouth in the coun-
ties reporting is general with the ex-
ception of C0wley, where the average
condition is 120 per cent. The crop in
the east half of Ness county is good,
but ruined by drouth III the west half.
Chincli bugs have also damaged the
Kansas crop. Sixteen counties in Iowa
report the condition of the
corn crop at 0l per
cent. of an average. No damage
by drouth or insects is reported by
Cerro Gordo, Clarke, Jones, Kossuth
and Woodbury. counties. Twelve CONN
ties in Minnesota report an average OF
IS per cent. The average reaches or
passes 100 per cent. in Becker, Zig
Stone, Blue Earth and Sibley counties.